126 FOSSIL MAMMALIA. 



At Candstadt, in the valley of the Necker, in Wirtemberg, 

 in the same company. 



In Bavaria, on the west base of the Hartz Forest, and in 

 the VaP d'Arno. 



In the four last-mentioned places they were embedded in the 

 ancient alluvial strata. 



Fossil Felin^e. 



One very large animal, and another less in size, of the genus 

 Felis, have left their remains in the caverns and in the loose 

 strata. Proofs of this, as far as respects the caves of Hungary, 

 we find as long ago as the memoir of Vollgnad, mentioned in 

 our last article. Also from the cavern of Schartzfels we have 

 a portion of cranium, represented by Leibnitz in his Protogasa. 

 According to M. Soemmering, this cranium entirely resembled 

 that of a lion of middle size, and differed in no less than thirty- 

 six points from that of the cavern bears. But most of these 

 have as much relation to the genus felis in general, as to the 

 lion species in particular. 



In Esper's figures from Gaylenreuth, there is one-half of the 

 upper jaw and many teeth easy to be recognised as belonging 

 to felis, and the resemblance of which this author himself had 

 recognised. M. Rosenmiiller, in his treatise of the bear, men- 

 tioned before, announced that he should soon publish a work 

 containing a description of the bones of an unknown animal of 

 the Hon family, and adds, that those bones appeared not exactly 

 to resemble those of the existing lion. M. Goldfuss, in his de- 

 scription of the environs of Muggendorf, has given a figure of 

 a complete head, evidently of the feline genus, but of an un- 

 known species. He says that in Gaylenreuth the isolated bones 

 and teeth of felis are not more rare than those of hyaena. 

 In Kirkdale, Dr. Buckland only found two teeth, between 

 which and those of the existing lion the Baron can discover no 

 difference. 



The Baron, as we have said, has decided on there having 



